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Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 5357, 15 February 1916, Page 6

Perhaps the meanest theft on record wths perpetrattd at* Shannon. There were two burials that day, and a locaT correspondent refiorte that when the sexton went to dig the graves he found his spade and shovel had been stolen. The sun still fires off very early, and hits Trentharn about five o clock (says Leo Fanning in the Post.) Some men (chiefly young soldiers from the towns) cling to the bed. as drowning persons to a plank, but others wake up like the birds at dawn, and cannot idle while the sun is Climbing in the hcjnveiuj. They dress long before reveille (which is at 5.4f>), anti stroll outside. These excursionists are said to be “looking For the cows.” They have been used to an early attendance on her Majesty the Cow, and tlu(v do not easily adapt thenselves to non-cow hours of rest.